Lit Hub Daily: July 10, 2019

• In the patriarchy no one can hear you scream: Rebecca Solnit on Jeffrey Epstein and the silencing machine. | Lit Hub
• “You never know when you’re going to kick over a hive of very particular people. All over a book!” Chuck Wendig on enraging Tolkienites, pickling himself in Star Wars, and gin. | Lit Hub
• Stories “must not lose their wilderness.” Arundhati Roy and Siddartha Deb in conversation. | Lit Hub
• Documenting Jane Austen cosplay in the English countryside: on “Where We Belong,” a photo project by Alejandra Carles-Tolra . | Lit Hub
• In memory of Michael Seidenberg, owner of Brazenhead Books, who died this week. | The Hub
• “Life pulls you away from writing.” The liberation and consternation of writing a whole book with paper and pen. | Lit Hub
• Read a poem by Giorgio de Chirico (translated by Stefania Heim) from the collection Geometry of Shadows. | Lit Hub
• “Food and eating is symbolic of power and servitude, of possibilities and identities.” Lara Williams on hunger, women’s bodies, and Margaret Atwood’s first novel. | Lit Hub
• Did Thomas Harris write Hannibal just to mess with us, or is it the most brilliant work of the series? Patrick J. Sauer re-examines the polarizing classic at 20. | CrimeReads
• Veteran of the New York literary world Ann Kjellberg on fighting with Roger Straus, being Susan Sontag’s personal assistant, and an innovative new book review platform. | Book Marks
• This week in Secrets of the Book Critics: Boston Globe books columnist Nina MacLaughlin on superb small presses and the burden of the book pile. | Book Marks
• Lauren Groff on Virginia Woolf’s sophomore novel Night and Day, “a book that gazes backward in time with skepticism and a virago’s impulse to shred into tatters all that it sees.” | The Paris Review
• From Plutarch’s Moralia to Arthur C. Clarke’s Prelude to Space to Nalo Hopkinson and Ursula K. Le Guin: two millennia of lunar literature. | Nature
• The British Library has acquired Granta’s 40-year archive, which includes letters and papers from Iris Murdoch, Raymond Carver, Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, JG Ballard, Angela Carter, Kazuo Ishiguro, and more. | The Bookseller
• “The devil has three heads, with red eyes, moldy teeth, and hair made of fire.” On the controversy around the evangelical bestseller The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven. | Slate
• Scholars and theorists with challenging ideas sometimes rely on interviews, in journals and literary magazines, to clarify their ideas. Does that make the “critical interview” a literary form in its own right? | Inside Higher Education
• John. J Lennon, a criminal justice reporter who writes from prison, reflects on the life and death of 20th-century prison writer Jack Abbott, whose work was introduced to the world by Norman Mailer. | New York Review Books

Also on Lit Hub: Literary Disco talks Gatsby • David Ulin discusses the changing landscape of Los Angeles on A Phone Call from Paul • Reading Women on the literature of India’s partition • A 10-year-old girl fleeing Guatemala enters Mexico for the first time • Anthony McCann on the Constitutional confusion of the so-called American Patriot Movement • Read from Shane Jones’ new novel Vincent and Alice and Alice.